<div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM Joe Nosay <<a href="mailto:superbisquit@gmail.com">superbisquit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ok,</div><div>I will try to get back to this project after a few things in life.</div><div>I did run the autocfg or so script on an aarch64 device running android.</div><div>For reason that the ppc/ppc64 mac devices have a flattened device tree/device tree and not the direct acpi and boot loader:</div><div>1. The device needs to be checked from the open firmware boot loader that free bsd must chain load into before loading freebsd.</div><div>2. UEFI and EFI do not provide the exact same function as the open firmware loader, das uboot, the android RISC loader,</div><div> petitboot, or the sparc/64 boot loader.</div><div>3. I have not checked if there are any "--help" options for autocfg while there are for "configure --help".</div><div>4. I need to buy more RAM since 13.x allows over the 2gb hardware limit.</div><div>I have two imac g5 devices with the second being an isight. That one will be dedicated to freebsd.</div><div>5. I am wondering if the kernel change on 13.x for memory can be written to the netbsd kernel to allow a greater gb ram access.</div><div>If not, I may be trying and comparing brl.tty build between Free and Net BSDs on similar machines. The other is a standard imac g5 non isight.</div><div>6. If anyone does this along with me when I have a good start:</div><div>a. You will have to build the system from ports and list your options.</div><div>b. This project will be shared with the American with disabilities act.</div><div>This will allow people to know the exact setup. I have thought about it. PKg build up does not give the reason for each option when making the package.</div><div>For example, if heimdall options causes more trouble and that is the package option</div><div>then using the package will cause trouble in testing the brl.tty application/service.</div><div><br></div><div>RISC and CISC are not the same.</div><div>Compiling, functioning, etc</div><div>even the crystal oscillator are completely different.</div><div>I do not currently know which RISC powerpc/power devices run as bare metal or through some</div><div>virtual setup.</div><div>I need to make sure that g5/970 ?? run as bare metaal and that bare metal can be accesed on others.</div><div>LIve CD/DVD/usb images will need to be tested and ran.</div><div>I do not know as to the best dm/gui environment and the amount of available space.</div><div>Is it possible to have a live or "permanent" system that is able to load and test the proper drivers randomly.</div><div>I do npot have any type of account with the open power foundation. IBM will definitely need to be contacted</div><div>for some information.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 10:01 PM Brian Buhrow <<a href="mailto:buhrow@nfbcal.org" target="_blank">buhrow@nfbcal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> hello. I built Brltty a number of years ago on NetBSD, which is a close sibling of<br>
FreeBSD. So, I think you'll find it pretty easy to accomplish the task.<br>
-thanks<br>
-Brian<br>
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On Apr 7, 3:25am, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano wrote:<br>
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} > Has anyone built brltty on a ppc64 machine and or FreeBSD?<br>
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} I am interested to build brltty on FreeBSD. Currently I am trying to build,<br>
} run and use brltty with the xwindow emulator on Linux, then I=E2=80=99 ll s=<br>
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} try to build and/or adapt brltty on FreeBSD.<br>
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} Best regards,<br>
} Alfonso<br>
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